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Monday, April 4, 2016

NGO Monitor welcomes UK decision on pro-BDS group War on Want, warns Britain that it still funds other radical groups.

In response to the UK decision to halt funding
for the anti-Israeli "charity" organization War on Want, NGO Monitor
has called on the European Union to follow suit and pull funding for the
group.

"This is an important, albeit belated, step by the British
government," said NGO Monitor President Prof. Gerald Steinberg on
Sunday.

"Other institutional donors, in particular the European Union, should
follow suit and immediately end their funding for this anti-human right
organization," he added.

According to research conducted by NGO Monitor, the British
government gave War on Want nearly 500,000 pounds (over $700,000)
between the years of 2012 and 2015, while the EU gave another 211,000
pounds (over $300,000).

War on Want was originally established to fight global poverty, but it was recently exposed as
having been hijacked by anti-Israel activist to emerge as a leading
backer of the BDS boycott movement, leading to a major inquiry into the
ex-charity’s operations. It has regularly accused Israel of "war
crimes," "ethnic cleansing," and "apartheid."

"Governments should not be funding hate, nor should they support NGOs
that contradict and undermine their policy goals," added Steinberg.
"Unfortunately, the British government has other NGO problems to
address."

NGO Monitor noted that aside from War on Want, the UK funds Irish
Catholic aid organization Trocaire, which campaigns to sanction Israel
and is a partner of the Palestinian NGOs BADIL and Palestinian Center
for Human Rights (PCHR). Both of them accuse Israel of "ethnic
cleansing" and "apartheid."

The British government also funds the Norwegian Refugee Council
(NRC), which promotes "lawfare" campaigns targeting the Jewish state.Arutz Sheva StaffSource: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210232#.VwEhrnqzdds Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.